Posted on 01/07/2010 3:46:30 PM PST by curth
"Sarah Palin, do you guys really like her?"
My dad's doctor asked me this a couple of weeks ago. His smile seemed to shout, "Are you guys crazy?" I had taken my 94-year-old Republican father to see him several times, but politics never came up. Did the doc really want to go there? It went something like this:
"What's the problem with her?" I said.
"Well, she's, she's --"
"Stupid?"
"All right." "Really? Why, because she isn't as glib or articulate as you elites like? She didn't answer Katie Couric or Charlie Gibson the way President Obama would have?"
"Yes -- I'm one of those elites."
"How stupid do you have to be to take on the establishment in Alaska and win? How stupid do you have to be to have -- at the time Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked her -- an 84 percent popularity rating in Alaska? She had more executive experience than Obama."
"Well, she doesn't come across as prepared."
"I don't know what qualities you look for. But I'll tell you what counts for me: character, competence and vision. She's likable. She has a strong, stable marriage with a down-to-earth husband. She has convictions that I agree with. Government too big? Check. People taxed too much? Check. Stay on offense in the war on terror? Check. For me, what's not to like?"
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I will vote for Palin if she runs. I like the same reasons in the Official Post. She will run a clean house and hopefully reverse every policy Obama signed into law.
ML/NJ
I saw my cardiologist yesterday. He’s a very calm, mild-manner, polite man. When I asked him about Obamacare, he nearly went berserk. Stated he is a conservative and we will turn everything around this November. He hates Obama and all those other socialists up there in Washington. Didn’t argue with me when I stated that Obama was raised to be a communist. I love to know my medical care providers are conservatives!
I hear allot “she is stupid”. If you ask what she has said that is stupid, the responses are usually what Tena Fey said in a SNL skit.
I work for cardiologists and radiologists. They are almost all Jewish, and yet ironically, they are ALL Conservatives. They are FREAKING about Obamacare. One of them has actually signed up for law school. The hospital that I work at has already said that if we don’t merge with another hospital — or GROUP of hospitals — Obamacare will doubtlessly close us down. Just what I need as a 58-year old, to be unemployed with a Long Island mortgage. By the way, the 4th leading industry on Long Island is building cameras for MRI, CT-scan, X-ray and Nuclear Medicine. Think ANY of those cameras are being built right now? During HillaryCare, it was the only time in HISTORY that diagnostic scanning went down for two straight years. Why? Everyone was afraid. I see the same thing happening now; that same fear is echoing through the medical community. The only good news? When HillaryCare got dumped, my salary almost TRIPLED within the year. Here’s hoping...
Sarah Palin may have been somewhat overwhelmed by being thrust into a national political campaign for the first time in her life - who wouldn’t be? As for being stupid, compared to whom? Biden? The guy who thinks Roosevelt went on television to calm the country down after the 1929 market crash? The guy who stole not just speeches but biographical details from other politicians? The guy who makes wild claims against the evidence for the success of the “stimulus”? That Biden?
Sarah Palin is no more stupid than Eisenhower was, or Ronald Reagan, or any of the other conservatives and Republicans reviled by elite opinion. We’ll see who the real stupid ones are in 2012.
Cindie
I’d vote for her in a minute
That guy shouldn’t have a moron treating his dad...
Yes... I hear that a lot too - and the only quote they can come up with is the SNL one “I can see Russia from my bedroom window”.
Yet wasn't it O’Biden who stated in the VP debate he went to the local cafe to talk to his voters - and the cafe had been closed for 8 years or so?
It depends on how you define “stupid”...:^)
I love your name...years back my kids gave me a t shirt that said, I am out of estrogen and I have a gun....laughted myself silly with that one...
I want that T shirt lol
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